The last bits of 2010

So, since i didn't really talk much about my last bits of 2010 before.. here we gooooo!!

first and foremost.. celamak gila formal kan.. haha. nyway, my bestfriend came up to Lancaster to visit me! It was really nice to have her over!! asyik jealous over the fact that my frens back in msia kept meeting up and i'm not there. it's like lepak2 kat taman tun all over again but just in a totally different country! haahhaha. tho she said i'm different here in the UK. hmmmm. a tad weird, cause i think i'm the same? i love the fact that she got to meet my msian friends here in lancs and they can get along well! a bunch of us went camwhoring at the park. it was still snowing at that time so it was nice to see the park covered with a blanket of snow.

Then, I WENT SLEDGING!!!!! IT WAS SOOOO FUN! cam fun sangat! after 3 years being in UK, that was my first time sledging. ahaha. it was on the 22nd of December 2010. ha see, i remembered the date. i don't know how to explain the feeling of going down the hill on a sledge. i love the adrenaline rush! oh, we sledged at the hill near the football field in Uni. :D

i watched Wicked!!!! my 2nd musical theatre in London! yeay!!! always wanted to watch that. i sat at the very front row!! like THE FRONT ROW. the FIRST ROW from the front. need i emphasize more? hahaha. and it was only for 27.50 due to the day ticket. we were there at 9.15am to buy the ticket, u see. it's limited. yea. gotta be there eaaarllyyy in the morning. counter opens at 10am and the show is at 2/2.3opm. If u're ever in london, should go n watch it! it's good. Next musical to watch, Jersey Boys or Grease.. or anything else that involves singing n dancing for joy :p

I also went to a Ralph Lauren shop in Old Bond Street and good god it was super classy. i wish i could just live in that friggin shop. ahhahahhaa. Yazira n i went there just to look around and like woohhh!!! boy were we impressed. their latest ad had blown us away and their shop just adds up to it. hehehe.

that's it for my last bits! cause after that was the one in Bristol. (previous post) :D

XOXO!!

Happy 2011!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

I somehow do not have a new year's resolution ahaha.
we shall live the moment yo!

Well, maybe just to be more hardworking? It's the final countdown!

yikes!

I was in London and Bristol for my winter break.

Definitely a different new year celebration for me this time.

Since 2005, i've been outside with my frens or family

to celebrate new year during new year's eve.

2010-2011 new year's eve, i was in Bristol, snuggling in bed in a hotel, watching tv n my fren was fast asleep next to me.

Fell asleep while watching tv, woke up realizing it's already 2011.

I wished my fren Happy New Year but she was dead asleep.

so i slept.

Woke up with me complaining how i wished her but she didn't wish me back.

So i wished her again and she wished back and said..

"Soraya, we're 23!"

WHAT A TURN OFF!!! hahahahah.

Accidentally left my camera and handphone charger in London.

There are lots of things i wanna write about but i think i'll wait for my camera.

Luckily, my fren is in london and she can get it for me!

Thank you Iqa n Shika! :D

to all girls out there, you have GOT TO WATCH

Ralph Lauren's Big Pony Collection ad.

(top pic shows the main 4 models)

i like the ones in suits in the video. :D

It's the bomb! I've got my frens n sister watching it over n over again.

Their dressing, their style,

their walk, their smile,

their built, 1234..

It's to die for.

here's the link ;) enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80wVd1wptGM

Summer 2010 (Part 2)

Yo yo! After my holiday to Italy, went back to Malaysia. 2 weeks in KL, still tan as ever.

My mom was shocked to see me. I look huge n dark. ahahahaa.

She went "gelapnya anak mamaaa :( " hahaahahah! so worried about my tan.

Wouldn't be called a holiday if tak tan kan? Anyway, I went to Pulau Redang with the family.

It was our first holiday with new members of the family, Adam and Alisha. :D !!!

It was awesome!! I went snorkelling for the first time! The beach was just beautiful!

love it.

I'm a sucker for beautiful beaches. I LOVE THE BEACH.

I love laying by the beach doing nothing. just nothing. it's the most relaxing thing to do.

By the end of the Redang trip, i just made my tan worse. hahahaaha.

here are some pics!

super tan! what a mistake to be taking a pic with a very fair baby!

Sherry bummed out after a long day :)

Random fact of the day: Yawning is not cause by boredom or tiredness

My first homemade burger!

Hello world!!

It's such a BEEEAUUUTIFUL Sunday morning!

Clear blue skies, whole place is covered with white snowy blanket.

.bliss.

Anyhoo, last night, i decided to make dinner for my friends n i. :)

I love going on cooking adventures and my friends will be the guinea pigs to try them. hehehe.

So, I made Rosti & Lamb and Portobello burgers.

The Rosti & lamb was a total flop. Rosti tasted alright BUT it's too starchy. think i would need to give it another try nanti. Lamb... I do not know how to cook lamb. enough said. hehe. Tho the tiny bits that i cut from the lamb was alright. Rasa cam mkn da

ging goreng jer. hahaha.

I've got no pics of them cause i was too busy preparing that i forgot to take pics of them. My friend, Yana took a pic of the rosti n lamb, i'll post it up once i have em pics.

BUT none of us took the picture of the burger.

the first thing that i asked my friends to try was the burgers cause i like em!

I had mine earlier. Had to try it on for myself first before i let them eat right.

see whether it is edible or not. haha.

This is how the burger is suppose to look like:

Mine was lack of two things compared to the actual burger provide by the recipe; the provolone cheese (it took me a few mins to scan the whole shelf at Sainsbury's but they didn't sell it :() and the Prosciutto, as there aren't any halal of that, so i just opt it out. I also used the normal Portobello mushrooms not the large ones.

Anyhoo, the burger taste good!! i liked it and so did my friends! Will be on my "food yang menjadi" list! hehehe :)

Random fact of the day: The rumbling sound caused by the movement of gas in your stomach and intestines is called Borborygmus.

My summer 2010 (part 1) - Italy (continuation)

Ciampino Airport, Roma

ITALY : I've already posted most on Italy in one of the previous post BUT i don't think i've mentioned about the last n most important part of my Italy trip. I'm gonna write it down now, WE WENT TO THE WRONG AIRPORT on the day we were going back to London! HORROR gila.

One of my friends got confused whether we were going to Ciampino or Fiumicino Airport and ask the directions on how to get to Ciampino (the wrong one) a few days before our departure date. So everyone thought we WERE going to Ciampino. We had bought the bus tickets and what not. ON the day of departure, we reached Ciampino earlier than as per planned as we took the earlier bus cause we could (which was good because we didn't see what's coming at that time). Only at the airport itself

did my other friend gave us the flight ticket. So everyone started walking and i opened the ticket n realise that it's written Fiumicino instead!!!!! but at that time, i wasn't really sure which airport we were at (worse case right.. well i wasn't the one in charge of going back) so anyway, i just went "babe, we are at Ciampino? but my ticket says Fiumicino?" and my fren's face totally changed and went SHIT. OHMAIGAWD. and that's when i started to get panicky. and we both hurriedly ask the rest to check their tickets and everyone was just shocked n started to get panicky. ahahhahahha but one of us asked everyone to calm down n rushed to go back to the bus and asked whether that bus goes back to the city.

Apparently, the right airport, Fiumicino is on the other side of the city!!!! Nasib baik, we took the earlier bus before. so we had a bit more time to reach the right one. we hoped on the bus and were praying hard that we wouldn't miss out flight. once we reached back to the city, we had to take the train to the airport!!!! we were running for our lives to the platform i tell u. then once we touched down at Fiumicino we started to run our ass off again! it's like in Amazing race. SERIOUSLY. the guys carried their bagpack so it's easier for them to run. Us girls were running with those luggage stroll bags!!! we thought we reached the gate, BUT THEN it wasn't the

right one when we asked one of the polive officers there. it was further away!!!! like Air Asia nya dock and KLIA camtuh! jauh kan. ha. so, panicky again, we ran so fast, the bag was going all crazy but we just drag that god damn thing when we were running! one of my friends even took off her slippers cause it's easier to run. The people at the airport must be thinking we're one rushing Asians catching their flight. hahahahaahah.

Finally when we reached the right gate, our flight was delayed. (a blessing in disguise) we were there on time but boy were we tired. you would know that the 5 of us had b

een running (maybe ran a marathon) cause of how we were out of breath. hahahahahaha. penat gila. but we were glad that we made it on time n laughed it out when we recap what had happened. (masa tuh boleh la ketawa kan) haha. :)

At the end of our trip. I was tan as ever. I have quite a dark skin tone n i got darker. oh boy. hahahaha. but it was worth it!!

I miss Italy.

one of my experiences I shall never forget. :)

Arrivederci! x

It snowed!

Good morning fellow readers! It snowed today!

Tho, i missed the first snow fall! wonder at what time did it start to snow.

So, i woke up and look out the window and that's what i saw (pic above).

I can't wait for the next snow fall! Yet, i know i won't be liking it once it starts to snow more frequently. hahaha

It is said to be that this year's snow will be worse than last year.

Brace yourself people! huhuhu.

I've finished planning out my winter break yesterday.

I shall share it with you. :)

Azdianur will be coming up for the first 3 days at the start of winter break,

off to London for xmas, boxing day and till the 29th with Shika,

finishing off 2010 at Bristol with one of my close n craziest friends, Yasirah,

I will be spending my winter break with my bestfriends, yeay!!!

Also, it's gonna be a white christmas this year! woot woot!

one more thing, i find this to be so romantic. hehe. In Covent Garden, London, if a couple kiss under the Christmas tree at the West Piazza, this will light up the lights around that area. (cue for awwwhh) AWWWWHHHH. haha. sweet kan?? how romantic is that weh. :)

xoxo, sorayaness

The other Soraya!

TODAY is my bestfriend's birthday!!!!!!!

yeay!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SORAYA MALINI!!

You're one of my craziest & most awesome friends EVER!

I would never forget that time when we were 11 years old, u helped me when i got my migrain attack. :D

After 10 years, i still didn't get to celebrate your birthday!

I'm really really happy that i got to spend more time with you this time around!

10 years of not seeing u (that one year u came back doesn't count cause i only met u for a night) and poof u're back this year!

was just awesome.

I know, u won't be long in Msia and will head back to the U.S. in a few years time.

Well, Malini, i'll work my ass off and make sure i attend your wedding in the states!

God's will. :)

I love you & I miss you bestie!!

-xoxo, raja-